{"id":315495,"date":"2026-05-30T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:11:20","slug":"director-felipe-vargas-in-el-paso-for-mvp-fight-featuring-han-holm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315495\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Felipe Vargas in El Paso for MVP fight featuring Han, Holm"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 For filmmaker Felipe Vargas, Stephanie Han\u2019s rematch against Holly Holm was reason enough to head to El Paso this weekend. The director, who is currently promoting his horror film Hive, is among the many boxing fans traveling to the Sun City for Saturday\u2019s WBA Lightweight World Championship showdown.<\/p>\n

Vargas is currently featuring his daytime horror film \u201cHive,\u201d which stars Mexican-American actress Xochitl Gomez.<\/p>\n

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Saturday\u2019s WBA Lightweight World Championship bout has drawn boxing fans from across the country, including Vargas.<\/p>\n

Stephanie and Jennifer Han\u2019s legacy on display at MVPW-03 <\/a><\/p>\n

Vargas joined KTSM\u2019s Diana Castillo on KTSM+ at 4 on Friday, May 29, where Castillo asked him to predict the winner of Saturday\u2019s fight at the El Paso County Coliseum.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have to pick the hometown hero. Stephanie Han all the way,\u201d Vargas said of the boxer, who also serves as an El Paso police officer. \u201cI hope the fight goes all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hive is available to stream on Tubi. The film will also be screened at the Philanthropy Theatre in El Paso on Sunday, May 31 at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 For filmmaker Felipe Vargas, Stephanie Han\u2019s rematch against Holly Holm was reason enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[113417,113415,138,9224,140,139,113414,49368,113416,498,113418,49369],"class_list":["post-315495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-boxing-fans","tag-diana-castillo","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county-coliseum","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-felipe-vargas","tag-holly-holm","tag-horror-film","tag-ktsm","tag-mexican-american","tag-stephanie-han"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}